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From: anderson@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Joel Peter Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.cog-eng,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: What are menus?
Message-ID: <990@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 17 Jan 89 14:40:07 GMT
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In article <3284@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <2470@ssc-vax.UUCP>, coy@ssc-vax.UUCP (Stephen B Coy) writes:
>> Can menus be replaced with something closer to the actions they
>> are a metaphor for?...
>Have a look at the original mouse-menus-icons user interface... the Xerox
>Star. It worked much like this. To print a file you dropped it in the
>printer icon, etc... this feature (a cool one) only survives in the Trashcan.
>
Don't all desktops do this? ON MY COMMODORE 64 (at home) with the GEOS operating
system that is exactly how you print files. . . and it works for any 
printing application... (think its about time to bring my '64 back to work to
replace this junky PC clone... unless I get a SUN...)
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